What did her teachers think of her writing as a kid?
I recently found myself wondering what did her teachers think of her writing during those early school years when everything felt so high-stakes. It's a question that pops up a lot when we look at famous authors or even just friends who ended up becoming professional wordsmiths. We see the polished books on the shelves now, but there was a time when that same person was sitting in a cramped wooden desk, chewing on the end of a pencil, and trying to figure out where the heck a semicolon actually goes. ...